by ginormous76
Over the next decade, I am going to track and rank games that I play that come out during the decade.
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Wow! This was basically everything I could hope for. Distinct sections of the world. Different bosses. Fun puzzles. I loved this so much, I got the platinum on both PS5 & PS4.
To be fair, I played the PS5 version after a lot of bugs had been fixed. If this was the game that came out at launch, it easily would have been up for GOTY. This game is gorgeous, fun and I cannot stop playing. Even after finishing the game, I went back in to get the platinum which includes doing every "gig," which is to a side mission what a side mission is to a main mission. It's been a long time since I have played an open world RPG and didn't reach the point of, "I'm ready to be done, let's just finish the story."
This is a classic JRPG, that should probably go down as one of the all-time greats. The developers even created items you can turn on or off to make the game easier, so anybody can enjoy it! I found myself constantly wanting to play this game. I got to the final boss and told myself, "Ok, I'm ready to finish the game." Then I went and did about 10 hours of optional side content first. The first ending really encourages you to get the true ending, which I both love and hate. I'm going to be thinking about this game for a long time.
Fantastic! The combat is great (except some minor gripes), the story is really well done (though on replay to platinum, I really wish I could skip even more of it). Excellent, excellent game. The Intergrade/Yuffie DLC was a lot of fun, and Yuffie was a great character to play with. Being able to be melee and range in the same battle was fantastic. Her elemental ninjitsu also made the game a lot of fun. I actually enjoyed Fort Condor (I would always do the bare minimum in the originally FF7).
This game is great. World Tour mode is fantastic. I spent about 30 hours on it. I'm looking forward to learning a few characters and hopefully getting good with them. I would like the arcade cabinets to have some kind of way to figure out how good the person you're going to play against is. It is really annoying to have the daily quest be "win 3 arcade matches in the hub."
Fantastic follow up to a fantastic game. This story went places I could not predict, and worked! Played 40 hours to platinum, and could have played a bunch more.
This game is really good. The story is probably the best story since Yakuza 1. The gameplay is solid. There was a big difficulty spike, even though I had done every side story and event up until that point. Some boss battles just had too much health. The platinum requires an irritating amount of grinding. Which sucks, just because I was enjoying so much of the game and to find that I basically needed to just mindlessly grind for 10s of hours to get it really hurt. I know, it's hard to complain about enjoying a game so much you want to do everything, but I really did and felt let down.
This game was fantastic. It's a horror game with some survival elements. You play as a regular person. You never feel overpowered, but you also do not feel too overwhelmed. The game kind of just throws you into the psychological horror and in a way feels like a good version of Stranger Things as a video game. This would have won 2022 GOTY if I had gotten around to it.
This game was an emotional JOURNEY. Fantastically done. Wow. I think this was better than Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. It would have been my #2 game in 2021 if I had gotten around to it then, just behind Resident Evil Village.
I'm not big on Shakespeare, but wow. If this game had existed when I was in high school, I would have wanted to read Shakespeare. Who would have though Shakespseare + Sailor Moon/magical girls + Zeboyd (and their comedy style) would have been so freaking good? I'm absolutely floored. Plus, I played an entire JRPG in under 10 hours! I cannot recommend this enough.
